Path of Exile 2

Watching Ghazzy now and he is about to quit as well. Minions with 7 Storm Mages and Clerics cant survive white mobs in T1 map.

I should not engage with you Chris but I am starting to understand why people are annoyed by you. Either you are trolling or just really fucking stupid, probably both. Do you not think I know how to spec the tree after doing 300h in 0.1 on a Minion Infernalist. Jesus fucking christ.

Yea I am mad, because I want the game to be good and FUN.

"Tedious" is the only way to describe the state the game is in currently.

I'm playing one of the better things you can be doing right now by all accounts (galvanic shards crossbow stuff), and 'm progressing the campaign fine, but it's just so fucking *annoying*, *constantly*.

The game is set up in such a way right now that every encounter with packs of mobs must be a fight with a capital F, all the way down to the shitty white mobs. Every mob is faster than you or has better AE/projectile coverage than you, and while you do still win (mostly because health flasks exist lol), did you have fun doing it? There's no power fantasy, no feeling of progression as you level, no solving problems that you're having with a certain kind of mob or content, etc.

Like at the very end of act 2 they introduce those guys with big shields on the dreadnaught. How do they think it's okay for those to exist in a game like this? 95% directional damage reduction against everything? On a basic white mob? That you fight 50 of in a zone? This is the kind of thing that sounds sick on paper but then any sane person that interacts with it a couple of times in-game should go 'wait a minute, this is ass'. But they don't have that sane person checking things, they just have rampant 'on-paper' designs all over the game forever and it just makes the entire thing a misery to play.

Watch that Quin clip I posted. The very fact that that smith weapon forging thing made it in to the game the way it is makes me extremely suspect of their entire process. There is no world in which sane people would have made that ability and gone 'yea this is it, this is sick', much less had it survive any kind of testing/feedback.

Praise for GGG. I said it before, but I don't see anyone else talking about this, so Im going to say more.
Convalescence is a great addition, and far far better balanced then Grim feast.


30spirit.
buff, duration.
grants a skill. on use, instantly begin recharging ES, and prevents recharge interruption for its duration. buff is removed at full ES, and cant be used while on full es.
30s CD.

This is basically, an ES flask.
scales with CDR, es recharge rate, max ES, buff/skill duration.
makes faster start of ES kindof pointless.
preventing ES recharge interruption should enable multiple self damage builds.

It doesn't give you that massive persistent ehp 1shot protection. but instead a huge survival over time buff.

its also available in act 1.
you can get it from crowbell. support it with vitality, and clarity. 1% hp regen, 25% increased mana regen.
and with a scepter, and another spirit gem, also get Arctic armor. AA+vitality, conv+persistance(increased duration)+clarity. 30+20, 30+10=90spirit. (leaves 40 spirit even for srs if you get a 3rd spirit gem.)

this is an incredibly powerful defensive setup available from act1. especially when everyone is complaining about zoomies and enemies being on top of them constantly.

Caliane said:

yes, there are some correctly saying, "ok, you slowed us down, now for fucks sake, slow the monsters down too."

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I didn't watch all that many streamers last night, admittedly. I spent waaaay too much time watching Quin troll the fuck out of his chat about how amazing this game is and they are all bozos who just don't see the vision GGG has - "You think you want a thing, but you don't retards!!". When he got his Blacksmith ascendency and used the Forge Weapon ability in a boss fight, even he couldn't keep a straight face and stay in character. It was pretty hilarious.

That said, Steelmage was the only streamer I saw with this take. You can't just fucking port PoE1 mobs over to PoE2. Elites and Rares are fucking insane, not to mention half of just the basic ass white mobs. I was fine with a slower, more methodical PoE and was fine with PoE1 being the "zoomer" version of the game. It seemed like there were a lot of people who just wanted PoE2 to be PoE1, but better graphics. I love the "slower" pace of PoE2 - less loot explosions, less damage, etc. But that just doesn't work with where they have mobs scaled currently.

I actually think boss fights feel pretty good and require some decent play. But the regular mobs? FIX YA GAME GGG!!!

So they hit the panic button hard

MrHolland420 said:

Anyone playing strictly on Console? lol , I need to upgrade my computer before I even think about buying anything for new for the PC, I can always play those special Christmas Gift Steam Games I receive KRA KRA KRA KRA. I think it is about time for a damn upgrade on a desktop, my phone is more powerful.... But I have been playing on PS5, the controller isn't terrible.... suppose I have gotten used to it for the last couple of years, since my desktop does run off steam pressure from burning coal.... Fucking i-7! though!! lol KRA KRA KRA

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I'm on PS5. No graphical issues at all except once last league in the underwater city in a3. It had sparkles and rain.

Otherwise console is fine. Make sure to link your Sony account to your poe account, which gives you access to the trade site and the PC item filters.

Kirun said:

I didn't watch all that many streamers last night, admittedly. I spent waaaay too much time watching Quin troll the fuck out of his chat about how amazing this game is and they are all bozos who just don't see the vision GGG has - "You think you want a thing, but you don't retards!!". When he got his Blacksmith ascendency and used the Forge Weapon ability in a boss fight, even he couldn't keep a straight face and stay in character. It was pretty hilarious.

That said, Steelmage was the only streamer I saw with this take. You can't just fucking port PoE1 mobs over to PoE2. Elites and Rares are fucking insane, not to mention half of just the basic ass white mobs. I was fine with a slower, more methodical PoE and was fine with PoE1 being the "zoomer" version of the game. It seemed like there were a lot of people who just wanted PoE2 to be PoE1, but better graphics. I love the "slower" pace of PoE2 - less loot explosions, less damage, etc. But that just doesn't work with where they have mobs scaled currently.

I actually think boss fights feel pretty good and require some decent play. But the regular mobs? FIX YA GAME GGG!!!

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yeah, I've played enough games, seen enough player reviews.. honestly while "you think you want a thing, but don't" may sound retarded, honestly its often very true. I see that shit all the time in Fallout4 and skyrim criticism for example. "the main story sucks, make it more like Cyberpunk, witcher". no. just fucking no. they are immersive sandboxes, not on rails story games. even starfield. same problem. the game sucks, but so many of the reviews are completely wrong on why it sucks. "the engine is old, get rid of all this pointless immersive shit, and focus on the main story". sigh... now, don't get me wrong, the immersive shit in starfield IS broken. but, moving away from that isn't going to fix the game. it would just make it more same boring slop. avowed, outer worlds, veilguard. go back and listen to most of the starfield criticism videos. avowed/outerworlds is what they are asking for..


They have been hotfixing btw.
discipline scpters were fixed, they work now. probably bis for mages.
smith ascend is fixed.
that one "Serialized error" was fixed.

Xerge said:

So they hit the panic button hard

Early Access Patch Notes - 0.2.0 Hotfix 6 - Forum - Path of Exile

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They rolled this back because whoever made this change is retarded.

What actually happened in-game was every monster was spawning with ~25% of its full health bar missing, thus breaking every 'full life' interaction in the game and also just, ya know, looking absolutely pathetic and panic-induced.

LE should release today, right now. Probably wont ever have a better opportunity to steal away some market share.

I gotta say playing a minion build and not having this broken ass grim feast would be unplayable.

ronne said:

It's a blood bath on Twitch. Even Mathil was losing his mind about how awful spears are to play

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New ascendancy! Smith of Kitava! Raise Spectre arrives in Path of Exile 2!

Having the brand new thing that you're excited about that you want to try be ass feels bad and then feels bad again when you take a moment to consider that they thought this was alright to launch Dawn of the Hunt For Playable Skills with in the first place. No one with any say in the matter sat down and took a trip through the campaign with this stuff.

TheBeagle said:

LE should release today, right now. Probably wont ever have a better opportunity to steal away some market share.

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Yup. They made a massive mistake by delaying their release. Yesterday would've been the best time.

Aazrael said:

I should not engage with you Chris but I am starting to understand why people are annoyed by you. Either you are trolling or just really fucking stupid, probably both. Do you not think I know how to spec the tree after doing 300h in 0.1 on a Minion Infernalist. Jesus fucking christ.

Yea I am mad, because I want the game to be good and FUN.

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It was the same at launch. They did that emergency cast on freeze nerf and all the smart people found Ice Sorc unplayable but I was "stupid" apparently so I easily cleared the campaign and half the maps.

All I know is that I'm clearing the game just fine including a lv22 Sekhemas when usually I'm going back to that at the end of the act.

I think that some people are very inflexible, maybe knowing how to spec the tree makes you unable to try something else? Did you try SRS?

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lots of happy people

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Looking at all these Huntress and Warrior clips I was having an easy time with Skeletal Snipers.

Yes I'm running SRS then tried Sniper/Arsonis/Frost. They don't live at all, basically only SRS is doing dmg.

While I struggled at release it was not this bad, it's just plain unfun.

I'm done with 0.2 unless they do some huge patch to fix it. I got other games to play, but I was looking forward to PoE2 but not like this, fuck it.

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Looking at all these Huntress and Warrior clips I was having an easy time with Skeletal Snipers.

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That is what I am using for the moment. The good thing about not playing so much is that hopefully they will actually balance the game rather than swinging all the way over on the other side of the pendulum before it gets redunculous.

While on a more silly note.

What is the algo for how long a portal stays up in campaign. Its either 2 minutes or infinity, no in between. Had a random portal from some random A1 zone from last night still up when I logged in this morning.

I thought if you logged out at the base, with a portal up, it would stay up?

Kirun said:

Yup. They made a massive mistake by delaying their release. Yesterday would've been the best time.

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Actually starting to see it this way and I was one who thought moving it was a smart move. They fucking shoulda Hodor'd on their original stance.

Khane said:

No point in interacting with him.

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He's approached Bubbles status of neg and move on.